With Commander Curtis L. Brown, Jr. and Pilot Kent V. Rominger at the
controls, the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery touches down on Runway
33 at KSCs Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:07:59 a.m. EDT Aug. 19 to
complete the 11-day, 20-hour and 27-minute-long STS-85 mission. The
first landing opportunity on Aug. 18 was waved off due to the
potential for ground fog. Also onboard the orbiter are Payload
Commander N. Jan Davis, Mission Specialist Robert L. Curbeam, Jr.,
Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson and Payload Specialist Bjarni
V. Tryggvason. During the 86th Space Shuttle mission, the crew
deployed the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the
Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (CRISTA-SPAS-2) free-flyer to
conduct research on the Earths middle atmosphere, retrieving it on
flight day 9. The crew also conducted investigations with the
Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD), Technology Applications and
Science-1 (TAS-1) and International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker-2
(IEH-2) experiments. Robinson also made observations of the comet
Hale-Bopp with the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System (SWIS) while
other members of the crew conducted biological experiments in the
orbiters crew cabin. This was the 39th landing at KSC in the history
of the Space Shuttle program and the 11th touchdown for Discovery at
the space center.
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